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The politics of education in developing countries : from schooling to learning /

This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Hickey, Samuel, 1972- (Editor), Hossain, Naomi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Education and state > Developing countries.
Education > Political aspects > Developing countries.
Éducation > Aspect politique > Nouveaux pays industrialisés.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Nouveaux pays industrialisés.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
Education > Political aspects
Education and state
Education
Developing countries
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of education quality in developing countries
  • Researching the politics of education quality in developing countries
  • Decentralization and teacher accountability
  • The politics of learning reforms in Bangladesh
  • The downsides of dominance
  • Political transformation and education sector performance in South Africa
  • The political economy of primary education reform in Cambodia
  • The political drivers of quality education
  • Understanding the politics of the learning crisis
  • Similarities and idfferences in policy reform destinies.